A superb effort . A real pleasure to use . Just the right ammount of background is provided in the footnotes . I'm very fussy , but I cannot find fault with this book . Highly recommended .
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This is a review of Classic Spanish Stories and Plays, adapted by Marcel C. Andrade. McGraw-Hill, 2001 (ISBN 0658011383). After finishing Spanish IV at my community college, I started Don Quijote with the aid of Tom Lathrop's `Don Quijote Dictionary.' Even with the dictionary, Cervantes was slow going, so I decided to retrace my steps and gain some reading practice with something simpler. That's when I found this book...
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This delightful book is the second volume of the Spanish Reader Series, which began with the Easy Spanish Reader. This book follows the same general principles--immediate immersion in the readings, no tedious grammar or vocabulary drills, no verb conjugations, just reading and understanding. So, I found myself advancing rapidly and enjoying myself immensely. The readings are modernized and abridged versions of the classic...
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No matter how much you study Spanish in school or out of textbooks, you will never be able to write well in the language unless you read real Spanish literature. Although the stories in this book are watered down a bit, they're still quite entertaining, and definitely increase the reader's understanding of the Spanish language.
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I love this book. This is perfect for someone with intermediate-level Spanish knowledge who wants to start reading in Spanish and greatly improve his/her vocabulary.It has classic short stories and plays that are very entertaining. But the best thing about the book is that it offers definitions of obscure words on the same page (at the bottom, out of the way of the rest of the text), and all less obscure words are included...
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